Background

Mr. R. Brad Oates, J.D. serves as the Co-Managing Partner, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chairman of Stone Advisors LP. Mr. Oates founded Stone Advisors in January 2002 and is one of the chief architects in developing the Stone Advisors' Business Model as a buyout and business advisory firm. He was a Managing Director and Operating Partner at Z capital Management LLC. Mr. Oates is integrated into the Investment Team and assists in the management and oversight of portfolio ... company initiatives including, but not limited to, the financial services industry. Prior to Stone Advisors LP, Mr. Oates held a successful career in the NFL with the St. Louis Cardinals, the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. He served as the President of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, from May 2000 to March 2001 and served as its Chief Strategy Advisor for the LexisNexis Group until January 2002. From 1988 to 2003, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Bluebonnet Saving Bank and its various subsidiaries where he successfully merged over $3 billion in assets across 150 systems and 1,000 employees and implemented aggressive cost control and asset/liability strategies that resulted in annual return on equity of approximately 30% during his tenure. He also served as Executive Vice President for Stone Holdings. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at RiskWise International, LLC. In 1984, he retired from professional football and to become Senior Vice President and General Counsel and a Board Member of Stockton Savings Association and Troy & Nichols Mortgage Company. He serves as the Chairman of Universal Hardwood Flooring, I.I.I.P.; xTech; Stone Bank FSB; Integration Solutions, LLC and IntegriView LLC. He has been a Director of Neways, Inc. since March 13, 2012 He has been an Independent Director of CIT Group Inc. since December 18, 2009. He served as Director of Bluebonnet Savings Bank. He served as the Chairman of NFC Global, LLC and eBureau, LLC. Since November, 1996, Mr. Oates served as Vice Chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank. He served as a Director of CIT Holdings, LLC since December 22, 2009. He served as Chairman and Director of the Texas Savings and Bankers Community Association. He served as Director of eBureau, LLC. This followed a successful collegiate academic and football career at Brigham Young University where he was Captain of the football team and earned All conference young University’s J. Redben Clark Law School. The same year, he was awarded the Professional Responsibility Award by the Utha Bar Foundation. He is the Author of the Seven Management Disciplines for Highly Successful Businesses, involving the management disciplines of (i) Strategy Management, (ii) Human Resources Management, (iii) Systems Management, (iv) Operations Management, (v) Customer Experience Management, (vi) Financial Management, and (vii) Risk Management. Mr. Oates received a J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU with honors in the upper 20% of his class in 1982 and his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1976.

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